WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.610 --> 00:00:06.569 Starship Troopers was a movie. I watched when I was eight years old and I thought it was a pretty cool sci-fi movie 00:00:06.569 --> 00:00:09.058 but what I didn't know was that it was one of the most 00:00:09.610 --> 00:00:14.040 misunderstood movies ever. my eight-year-old self will be completely 00:00:14.469 --> 00:00:20.549 surprised. Starship troopers a dumb space war movie Starship Troopers a brilliant satire of military propaganda 00:00:21.250 --> 00:00:26.699 Starship Troopers a movie that misunderstood the novel he was parodying and then got misunderstood for what it was parodying Starship Troopers 00:00:27.130 --> 00:00:29.130 war is stored in the balls 00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:31.799 Hello everybody it's me 00:00:32.680 --> 00:00:38.309 Lately, there's been a lot more articles talking about Starship Troopers as in the light of we got it all wrong 00:00:38.500 --> 00:00:44.960 How could we have been so blind you're all a bunch of fools, you do not understand. It was a joke Wow 00:00:45.680 --> 00:00:46.800 I'm DoiNg mY paRt 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:48.400 I'm DoiNg mY paRt 00:00:48.760 --> 00:00:49.300 I'm DoiNg mY paRt 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:52.140 I'm DoiNg-- your mom 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:53.380 (Adults laughing at a 9 year old) 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:59.360 Maybe in retrospect. It's easy to point out. How overly the top the satire is but 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:05.610 Looking back at reviews at the time, It seems like a lot of people just didn't get it. The exact words are the text 00:01:06.520 --> 00:01:08.520 But do you understand it? 00:01:08.740 --> 00:01:15.680 Do you believe it? So what really is being misunderstood here and why? let's investigate. Would you like to know more? 00:01:23.660 --> 00:01:25.020 (The making of Pewds army of 9 year olds) 00:01:25.440 --> 00:01:28.320 Citizens rule people making a better tomorrow 00:01:32.380 --> 00:01:33.900 00:01:35.720 --> 00:01:42.600 The movie starts off with these military propaganda films and it's really during these times that it should have been obvious 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:44.980 They're basically spelling out for us 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:46.060 Heyyy 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:48.280 It's satire 00:01:48.299 --> 00:01:51.529 the story follows John Rico and Carmen Ibanez 00:01:51.530 --> 00:01:56.780 I mean just a look at these two, these characters look like they came straight out of a Beverly Hills TV show and 00:01:56.880 --> 00:01:58.640 That's the point 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:01.900 Rumor has it that the director purposely selected these 00:02:02.340 --> 00:02:08.600 Actors to just look that part to make war look attractive and all these pretty people are fighting 00:02:09.329 --> 00:02:16.219 This idea is also reinforced through just how the film looks it's not your ordinary, Gritty alien type of sci-fi. 00:02:17.099 --> 00:02:21.199 It's-it looks and it's shot like a high school rom-com from the 90s 00:02:22.440 --> 00:02:28.489 During one of their final classes, The teacher is explaining why only what's called citizens are allowed to vote 00:02:28.920 --> 00:02:34.910 Why are only citizens allowed to vote but we're not really listening because we're distracted by the flirting and playfulness 00:02:35.099 --> 00:02:41.029 Between Rico and his girlfriend they've seen as a perfect example on how this movie could get over people's head 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:44.100 Despite at times feeding the message over you with a stick 00:02:45.260 --> 00:02:45.760 I dunno 00:02:47.900 --> 00:02:52.800 When school is over they sign up for their military duty to become citizens 00:02:52.820 --> 00:02:56.040 But before breaking apart, they make a promise to stay together 00:02:56.160 --> 00:02:56.880 Let's make a vow 00:02:56.940 --> 00:02:57.440 00:02:58.600 --> 00:03:01.520 No matter what, we'll always be friends (I saw what you did there) 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.280 Rico joins the infantry force 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:11.520 Ibanez joins to Starfleet during one of Rico's training exercises, He pushes it too far and an accident occurs 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:14.060 00:03:14.740 --> 00:03:17.200 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:18.760 Medic!!!! 00:03:19.940 --> 00:03:21.120 (Pewds chuckling) 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:22.640 Medic!!!! 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:24.780 Pretty sure he's dead mate, pretty sure 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:33.580 to break down the story to the bare minimal, when Osiris gets destroyed in an alien attack "Buenos Aires has been wiped off the Earth" 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.880 Ibanez ends up with another guy she meets at Starfleet. 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:41.580 00:03:41.700 --> 00:03:48.300 and Rico ends up with another girl that was all over him during high school. During the attack of alien space planet she then dies 00:03:53.140 --> 00:03:59.620 Very tragic along with Ibanez new boyfriend who gets his brain sucked out. We don't need to show that 00:04:00.880 --> 00:04:02.880 Honestly, it's pretty gross 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:09.750 the brain bug gets captured and since it controls all the other bugs the battle has been won and they reached a 00:04:10.060 --> 00:04:12.060 amazing conclusion that 00:04:12.620 --> 00:04:13.600 "It's aFraiD" 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.160 It's afraid, it's afraid everybody who would have thought 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:30.669 So there they are together back again just like in the beginning but they're really not with who they want to be 00:04:30.940 --> 00:04:33.340 It's more of a well, I guess our 00:04:33.980 --> 00:04:40.660 Boyfriend and girlfriend died. So here we are and the message of the stories and all we won the war is over. It's 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.000 We won but we must keep fighting any 00:04:44.629 --> 00:04:51.908 Banas and Rico is the figurehead of this next generations of Fighters. Just like it will just keep going and keep going 00:04:53.990 --> 00:04:57.110 Come on you Ape!! you wanna live forever??? 00:04:57.110 --> 00:05:00.729 When the movie came out it got terrible reviews and ratings in America 00:05:00.729 --> 00:05:04.239 We were accused by the Washington Post of being neo-nazis 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:09.039 The director says, also pointing out how in England they seem to have understand the joke 00:05:09.110 --> 00:05:12.759 This movie is meant to be an exaggeration of America they're 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:18.759 We are always right attitude to war which is probably why it flopped in the US and was a hit 00:05:18.830 --> 00:05:24.909 Everywhere else in the world. One of the reviews that I could found that gave it two stars said this want to know more 00:05:24.979 --> 00:05:26.199 Yes, I did 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.508 I was particularly intrigued by the way 00:05:28.509 --> 00:05:35.348 the bugs had evolved organic launching pods that could spit their spores into space and could also fire big globs of 00:05:35.719 --> 00:05:40.419 Unidentified fury matter at the attacking spaceships since they have no technology 00:05:40.640 --> 00:05:48.040 These abilities must have evolved along Darwinian lines to say this severely tested theory of evolution is putting it mildly 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.480 This is the point of the film if you look at the attack of Buenos Aires 00:05:53.020 --> 00:05:55.300 First of all, that guy is not from Buenos Aires 00:06:01.340 --> 00:06:06.660 You see the footage of the meteor you see the fires you see all the things you don't see any bugs 00:06:06.669 --> 00:06:14.049 You don't see any evidence of an actual attack. The Society of Starship Troopers is completely dependent on war to function 00:06:14.050 --> 00:06:16.870 They and therefore they need an enemy to function 00:06:16.870 --> 00:06:19.239 and for example when the meteor attacks 00:06:19.500 --> 00:06:23.920 Rico is more sure than ever that he wants to fight against the bug when in reality 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:30.360 it was probably just a regular meteor a movie like this will probably never exist today because of how 00:06:30.640 --> 00:06:37.319 Carefully edited and selected they are by the studios and I do think it's a fantastic film and if you haven't seen it 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:41.549 I definitely recommend watching it and and maybe it's time for a rewatch as well 00:06:42.129 --> 00:06:48.179 But there's another side of the story that seemed a lot of times untold the book while 00:06:48.729 --> 00:06:53.998 99% of movies based off novels that tend to be as close as possible to resemble its source material 00:06:54.520 --> 00:07:01.020 To appease fans or the author this films basically pulls down its pants and unloads their biggest dump 00:07:01.020 --> 00:07:03.719 It could possibly give on this novel 00:07:03.719 --> 00:07:09.539 The only thing the movie really borrows from the novel list of bugs and the names of the characters in the novel 00:07:09.539 --> 00:07:11.938 In fact, there's barely any action in it 00:07:12.189 --> 00:07:19.979 there's only really one fight and the director of the filming said said that I stopped after two chapters because it was so 00:07:20.139 --> 00:07:22.648 Boring, it is really quite a bad book 00:07:22.710 --> 00:07:29.489 I asked Edie Newmeyer to tell me the story because I just couldn't read the thing this kind of annoys me or 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:35.039 Anyone being a fan of the novel really because despite me maybe not agreeing with everything 00:07:35.039 --> 00:07:38.039 The novel says it has a lot of interesting things to say 00:07:38.039 --> 00:07:44.998 It's basically a parody that got misunderstood and it still misunderstood what he was trying to parody 00:07:45.069 --> 00:07:51.898 So are we back at this source material? I've never seen anything like this. It's so weird. It's so confusing 00:07:52.659 --> 00:07:59.248 Highland the author's politics are difficult to point to because a lot of times he just seemed to enjoy playing around with ideas 00:07:59.860 --> 00:08:01.800 There without a doubt provocative 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:09.659 but that's what make this a classic novel Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers because he thought America was getting soft and the bugs is flat-out a 00:08:09.969 --> 00:08:16.229 description of a communist society if you're looking for an epic space sci-fi battle of man between bugs 00:08:16.659 --> 00:08:19.409 Reading this you'll definitely be disappointed 00:08:19.409 --> 00:08:25.558 Here's some themes that was discussed in the novel when the teacher in the beginning scene that talks about civic duty 00:08:25.559 --> 00:08:30.869 He discusses that anything that is given to you has no inherent value if it's given for free 00:08:30.870 --> 00:08:34.829 Which is why only what is known as citizens is allowed to vote 00:08:34.829 --> 00:08:40.888 You could give someone an award without having them to work for it, but it wouldn't be worth the same to that person 00:08:41.500 --> 00:08:43.120 hyaline felt the same about voting 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.810 It shouldn't just be handed down to you democracy is something we fought for? 00:08:47.030 --> 00:08:49.749 But you won't appreciate it if it's handed down for free 00:08:49.850 --> 00:08:54.100 I'm not saying I endorse his idea of having to perform military service to vote 00:08:54.100 --> 00:08:57.460 But seeing how younger people are less and less inclined to vote 00:08:58.100 --> 00:09:02.020 Pokemons going to the polls isn't really making anyone go to the polls 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:06.969 The teacher also discusses violence and importance of it in this society 00:09:07.730 --> 00:09:09.730 Something given has no 00:09:10.220 --> 00:09:13.600 Value look when you vote you are exercising political 00:09:14.270 --> 00:09:16.900 Authority you're using force and force 00:09:16.900 --> 00:09:18.620 My friends is violence 00:09:18.620 --> 00:09:26.380 When the movie depicts violence as the ultimate source of conflict solver you laugh because it's silly it's dumb and it's over-the-top 00:09:26.630 --> 00:09:30.039 But I wonder what the city fathers of Hiroshi would say about that 00:09:30.980 --> 00:09:32.600 you 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:37.330 They probably wouldn't say anything Hiroshi mo was destroyed, correct? 00:09:39.740 --> 00:09:41.740 What the fuck 00:09:41.930 --> 00:09:47.080 Actually, why laughing we're turning a blind eye into history and maybe then it's not so funny 00:09:47.630 --> 00:09:50.679 Punishment is a very long important part of the novel 00:09:50.710 --> 00:09:58.210 It explains House punishment is vital to this society that we learned right and wrong from punishment man has no moral instinct 00:09:58.210 --> 00:10:03.249 He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it. I was not and a puppy has none 00:10:03.350 --> 00:10:08.409 We acquire moral sense when we do through training experience and hard sweat of the mind 00:10:09.050 --> 00:10:13.900 Last but not least the novel makes a very long case for why you should join the military 00:10:13.900 --> 00:10:19.030 It feels like Heinlein wrote this to inspire young people and that Rico's character growth 00:10:19.250 --> 00:10:24.880 Going from a boy to a man is a reflection of his own the novel makes a case. That veterans should run 00:10:25.010 --> 00:10:27.549 Society because they know what's best for mankind 00:10:27.650 --> 00:10:34.869 They can make decisions that are tough where one person gets to suffer for the better of the masses while in today in our society 00:10:35.060 --> 00:10:41.080 We're hyper focused on individuals the outcry of one person could have a massive effect on everyone 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:44.620 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:53.000 I directed the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary 00:10:54.110 --> 00:10:56.589 to establish a space force 00:10:57.170 --> 00:11:02.320 as the sixth branch of the Armed Forces we must have 00:11:02.899 --> 00:11:06.159 American dominance in space. 00:11:06.889 --> 00:11:12.698 A lot of us look at war today as something that we moved away from we avoid it because we know better now 00:11:13.040 --> 00:11:14.720 But do we really? 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:18.670 The society and starship troopers needed war for its society to function 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:23.780 But within its context it might even be justified but within ours 00:11:24.800 --> 00:11:26.800 maybe not pffft 00:11:26.980 --> 00:11:33.060 Hope you guys enjoy this video. 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